Car Control

Quick access to essential car functions: toggle the pit speed limiter, headlights, Push To Pass, DRS, starter, ignition, or tear off your visor — plus exit the car with Escape, pause the sim, and use backup driver inputs (handbrake, second clutch, second shift) for when primary hardware fails — all from a single button.

Modes

Select the mode from the Control dropdown in the Property Inspector.

Pit Speed Limiter

Toggle the pit speed limiter.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: A
Telemetry-aware icon: Yes — the icon is tri-state and reflects the current pit limiter state from iRacing telemetry in real time. Every state keeps the pit-speed-limit number (a track value, so it stays meaningful even on cars with no limiter) and shows the state on a status bar at the bottom, matching the other tri-state buttons (Fast Repair, Windshield Tear-off, Auto-Fuel):
- On — green ON bar and green border
- Off — red OFF bar and red border
- Not available — on cars without a pit limiter, a grey N/A bar and grey border, so you can tell at a glance the car has no limiter while still seeing the pit-speed limit. The button stays usable — pressing it still sends the configured binding.

The PIT LIMITER title is hidden by default so the speed number can be shown larger; enable it from the Title Overrides section if you want the label (the number then shrinks to make room).

Settings

No additional settings

Push To Pass

Activate Push To Pass / Overtake for IndyCar, Super Formula, LMDh, and other cars with OTP.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — Push To Pass has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: Yes — the icon reads P2P_Status (not the momentary button press) so it shows whether overtake power is currently active, not just whether you pressed the button

Settings

No additional settings

DRS

Toggle DRS on Formula cars.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — DRS has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: Yes — the icon reads DRS_Status to show whether DRS is currently open

Settings

No additional settings

Headlight Flash

Flash the headlights while the button is held. Useful for multi-class racing communication.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — Headlight Flash has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Tear Off Visor

Tear off a layer of visor film in open-wheel cars, clearing the view.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — Tear Off Visor has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Ignition

Toggle the ignition on or off.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: I
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Starter

Engage the car starter. Hold the button to crank.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: S
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Enter/Exit/Tow

Context-aware car entry, exit, pit reset, or tow. The icon updates dynamically based on your current iRacing state, and the button uses a hold pattern — press and hold to confirm the action. Enter Car is instant; Exit, Reset to Pits, and Tow each have an optional auto-hold checkbox that taps the button for you.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: Shift+R
Telemetry-aware icon: Yes — out of the car the icon shows the session context (Test / Practice / Qualify / Grid / Race); in the car it switches between Exit Car, Reset to Pits, and Tow on a red background

Setting: State icons

Enter/Exit/Tow automatically picks its display state based on live telemetry. There is no setting to override this — it is shown here only to document the mapping:

Enter Car — Out of the car. The button mirrors iRacing’s own session button: a green Test button (steering wheel) in test sessions, a blue Practice button (steering wheel) in practice, a purple Qualify button (stopwatch with a lightning bolt) in qualifying, a green Grid button (cars lined up on the grid) before a race starts, and a green Race button (flag) once the race is underway. When no session information is available the neutral steering-wheel Drive icon is shown.
Exit Car — In the pits; the icon shows a car with an outward arrow on a red background
Reset to Pits — On track in a non-race session; the icon shows a reset arrow on a red background
Tow — On track in a race session; the icon shows a tow hook on a red background

The session-state colors and the red in-car background are state-driven and intentionally not affected by color overrides or global color presets.

Setting: Auto-hold

Three independent checkboxes pick which hold-based states use auto-hold. Each one applies only when the matching telemetry state is active, so you can mix manual and auto-hold per state (for example, auto-hold for tow but manual for exit). Enter Car is instant and has no checkbox.

Off (default) — Hold the button to hold Shift+R; release the button to release it
On — A single tap holds Shift+R for 1.5 seconds automatically; tap again during those 1.5 seconds to cancel early

Escape

Send the Escape key to exit the car or dismiss dialogs. The Escape key is hardcoded and is not affected by any Property Inspector key binding.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: Escape (hardcoded — iRacing always uses Escape for this action, so the binding is not user-configurable)
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Setting: Auto Hold

Off (default) — Hold the button to hold Escape; release the button to release Escape
On — A single tap holds Escape for 1.5 seconds automatically; tap again during those 1.5 seconds to cancel early

Pause Sim

Pause the simulation.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: Shift+P
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Handbrake

Apply the handbrake while the button is held — a backup control for when your handbrake hardware fails mid-session.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support; press and hold the dial to apply the handbrake, release to let go
Default binding: No default key binding — Handbrake has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Second Clutch

Engage iRacing’s Second Clutch while the button is held — a backup for a failed clutch pedal.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support; press and hold the dial to engage the clutch, release to let go
Default binding: No default key binding — Second Clutch has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Second Up Shift

Shift up a gear via iRacing’s Second Up Shift control — a backup for a broken upshift paddle.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — Second Up Shift has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings

Second Down Shift

Shift down a gear via iRacing’s Second Down Shift control — a backup for a broken downshift paddle.

Details

Method: Key binding
Dial: No rotation support
Default binding: No default key binding — Second Down Shift has no default iRacing binding, so you must configure it in both iRacing and the Property Inspector
Telemetry-aware icon: No

Settings

No additional settings